Release Date

25 Oct, 2013

Runtime

01:42: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.

East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.

Original Title

Westen

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Actors

Jördis Triebel

Tristan Göbel

Alexander Scheer

Jacky Ido

Anja Antonowicz

Stefan Lampadius

Andreas Nickl

Gabriele Schulze

Michael Witte

Tania Carlin

Ryszard Ronczewski

Polina Voskresenskaya

Hendrik Arnst

Michael Benthin

Tatjana Berges

Angelika Böttiger

Winnie Böwe

Indre Bogdan

Diana-Maria Breuer

Tony Dunham

Rike Eckermann

Crew

Christian Schwochow

Thomas Kufus

Heide Schwochow

Frank Lamm

Barbara Buhl

Rainer Heesch

Jens Klüber

Rolf Rosendahl

Thomas Frankenberg

Inés Burger

Daniel Iribarren

Martin Langenbach

Beatrix John

Julia Terjung